Morning all, I hope everything is fine. All fine here but we (actually it's my wife) are trying to ween our kids off after school crap snacks. The opeing gambit was offering up a bowl of carrots on the table with a sign (snacks right here!) which has just forced the kids into buying £1 Maryland cookies from the corned shop and eating them on the way home. Will keep you uodated with progress.  

This week I have made several trips to Newbury (starting Sunday) to buy and transport a 4000 strong record collection from a man called Colin. Colin is 91, collected jazz and vocal records since the early 1950s and loved it all. Then he had a stroke on the tennis court a couple of years ago and can no longer play tennis or his records. I went there and we talked about Peter Hobelzeimer, Russ Garcia and great female vocalists of the post war period. He also told me he had no one to share his music with any more becuse all his jazz mates had died. It was all very charming and equally as sad. I bought all the LPs from him and they are now at Flashbacks in Islington as they have the staff and space to deal with them all. I kept a handful of LPs from the collection, including Monica Zetterlund's first LP which was the main reason I wanted to buy the collection in the first place. 

Colin then asked me to save two LPs from the collection for him (one was Don Sleet), which I took back to him on Wednesday. Such a sweet man.

Now I have a strange virus. Felt terrible yesterday, very out of sorts and a bit giddy. Maybe it's a jazz virus.  

Before I go here is one of the great and slightly abstract Sesame Street songs. This could could go viral.

I'm now off to go and lie down. With Monica.

Thanks for listening as always. 

Jonny

 

New Patreon Show drops today. Features some of Colin's records.